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1. Lifestyle - Books - FICTION

   E-books/audiobooks review: fiction

   Posted Jul 07th 2013, 12:00am by James Kidd

   ... Paris by Edward Rutherfurd read by Jane Wymark, Jonathan Keeble Hodder Headline (audiobook) Edward Rutherfurd writes epic, readable, character-driven historical fiction with a vibrant sense of place. His 2009 breakthrough novel, New York , was preceded by two books set in Ireland and three in England - including another capital city tale, London . Paris displays many ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1275956/e-booksaudiobooks-review-fiction
2. Lifestyle - Books - FICTION

   E-books/audiobooks: Fiction

   Posted Apr 14th 2013, 12:00am by James Kidd

   ... as their masters. Everyone is transfixed by the forthcoming coronation of the soon-to-be Edward VII. Arthur, the heir of the Dilbernes, has rescued his family by marrying Minnie: on the plus side, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1212981/e-booksaudiobooks-fiction
3. Lifestyle - Books

   E- and audiobook reviews: Fiction

   Posted Nov 25th 2012, 12:00am by James Kidd

   ... years? Don't get me wrong. When the series began, it was fresh, romantic, mildly scary and enjoyable. But unlike hunky, dangerous Edward Cullen, the series grew old fast. Having peaked in New Moon with the Bella-Edward-Jacob love triangle, Twilight ran out of puff for the simple reason that Stephenie Meyer is a romance writer forced into the body of a horror novelist. Once ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1089121/e-and-audiobook-reviews-fiction
4. Lifestyle - Books - FICTION JAMES KIDD

   Communion Town; Narcopolis; Renegade

   Posted Sep 09th 2012, 12:00am by James Kidd

   ... As Renegade opens, Robert is in exile in Ireland, having annoyed the old enemy, England, which has sent assassins courtesy of ruthless King Edward I. Ever the politician, (at least compared to William "Braveheart" Wallace), Robert seeks the lost Staff of Malachy, a mystical relic he hopes will smooth Edward's furrowed brow. Fat chance. Robert is arrested, and trapped in the webs ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1031472/communion-town-narcopolis-renegade
5. Lifestyle - Books - BOOKS

   J.K. Rowling dissects small-town life in new novel

   Posted Oct 07th 2012, 12:00am by James Kidd

   ... male and female. The disarming scenes in which Andrew witnesses the rage of his father compare not unfavourably to that masterpiece of paternalistic violence, Edward Murdstone in David ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1054658/jk-rowling-dissects-small-town-life-new-novel
6. New Moon

   Posted Nov 15th 2009, 12:00am by James Kidd

   ... in love with a vampire called Edward Cullen, who throws her an 18th birthday bash. When Bella cuts her finger opening a gift, Edward's brother Jasper mistakes Bella for the gift and tries to neck her - to death. A distraught Edward flees, leaving Bella to become comfy with a werewolf called Jacob. On the purely literary level, Meyer's triumph is a tad baffling, driven by prose ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/698349/new-moon
7. The Man in the Wooden Hat

   Posted Jan 02nd 2011, 12:00am by James Kidd

   ... The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam Abacus, HK$104 Sir Edward Feathers, QC, was the hero of Jane Gardam's fine novel about washed-up British colonialism, Old Filth. The title played on the infamous acronym: 'Failed in London Try Hong Kong'. The Man in the Wooden Hat retells Feathers' story only this time narrated by his wife, Betty. The couple meet ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/734576/man-wooden-hat
8. Breaking Dawn

   Posted Sep 19th 2010, 12:00am by James Kidd

   ... teen. Most importantly, you discover how Bella dissects her heart between the vampiric Edward Cullen and her flesh and blood (and fangs and tail) paramour, Jacob Black. Woof, woof. The problems? ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/725126/breaking-dawn
9. The Quickening Maze

   Posted Jun 13th 2010, 12:00am by James Kidd

   ... in Epping Forest, not far from London. The area would prove a magnet for poets: Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas were both stationed there in the army. Clare, by contrast, is an inmate of the asylum: ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/716948/quickening-maze
10. Forbidden love with a futuristic twist

    Posted Feb 20th 2011, 12:00am by James Kidd

    ... to Meyer is obvious, but striking. Like Bella and Edward, Lena and Alex are thwarted not by warring families or rival factions but by a genre. In Twilight, it's horror: the inconvenient fact that Edward Cullen is undead. In Delirium, Lena and Alex are scuppered because they live in George Orwell's 1984. Or perhaps it's Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, A Clockwork Orange ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/738688/forbidden-love-futuristic-twist

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